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				 Re: On the cusp... 
 Cainehill's got it on both issues; I cranked down my graphics settings, and turn processing massively improved.  They shouldn't be related.  My understanding is that this is the sort of thing which is commonly fixed in patches; optimization issues often don't come out in playtesting.
 Certainly, Civ4 was unplayable on most machines before its patches.  I'm hoping Dom3 follows the same pattern -- slow on release, followed by patches which take advantage of player notation of bottlenecks.
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